MOT conundrum...

[crazy about cars]

Have a bit of a problem with the missus car and hopefully someone could give some advice...

The insurance was renewed recently but I've only noticed that the car needed it's first MOT (which is coincidently AFTER the insurance is renewed) which was around 2 weeks ago. I should've picked this up but the whole month has been very busy for me plus dealing with other problems as well...

The car has a problem that requires it to go back to main dealer for diagnostic and I am also booking the MOT with the main dealer as I am hoping to get the problem sorted under goodwill gesture by booking MOT with them. The problem is they are really busy and the next available slot is 2 weeks away!

This means the missus car technically doesn't have a valid MOT. Can she still drive the car? The deadline for MOT was on the 8th of March...

[Krikkit]

Don't be a numpty, of course not! Get it booked in for an MOT elsewhere.

[steveo3002]

no you shouldnt be driving around with no mot

book it in somewhere else..most places can do next day

[MacW]

It's Tom.

What do I win?

[littleredrooster]

She can drive it, but will run the risk of a fixed penalty if caught (£60 IIRC). No points, though.

[simoid]

littleredrooster said:

She can drive it, but will run the risk of a fixed penalty if caught (£60 IIRC). No points, though.

Bearing in mind it has to be roadworthy - MOTed or not.

[ging84]

is this one of the threads where the op knows the correct answer, already knows what he is going to do anyway, and just wants replies so he can selectively ignore all the advice except the ones he likes so he'll feel less bad if his stupid plan back fires?

[funkyrobot]

I blame the DVLA for coincidentally putting the date of MOT renewal after the insurance renewal. Gits.



OP, is the airbag light on? Is this why the car can't be MOT'd until the dealer looks at it?

[simoid]

ging84 said:

is this one of the threads where the op knows the correct answer, already knows what he is going to do anyway, and just wants replies so he can selectively ignore all the advice except the ones he likes so he'll feel less bad if his stupid plan back fires?

I think you know the correct answer to that, and just want to ignore contrary replies...

[crazy about cars]

No, this is a genuine question! I'm away at work now so just remotely trying to advise the missus! She has not clue about cars and I genuinely forgotten about the MOT. I'll take the train back home tomorrow and get the car MOTed. It's the bank holiday weekend and apparently a lot of places are fully booked. I've also booked the car in with the main dealer in April to have this fault looked at (this is assuming nothing else goes wrong between the time period...)

I hope it will be road worthy as it's barely 3 years old! Just Sod's Law that things start to break when warranty runs out. Happened to my daily too!

Edited by crazy about cars on Wednesday 27th March 12:09

[crazy about cars]

funkyrobot said:

I blame the DVLA for coincidentally putting the date of MOT renewal after the insurance renewal. Gits.



OP, is the airbag light on? Is this why the car can't be MOT'd until the dealer looks at it?

Missus sent me a picture and there are some amber warning lights : glow plug, EBC + ABS but this is normal if the car is jump started after a flat battery. The RAC man cleared the fault last time using his machine. The AA man that came this time didn't clear the warning though.

[TinyCappo]

what car is it so i can avoid buying one that has these faults after only 3 years?

[crazy about cars]

TinyCappo said:

what car is it so i can avoid buying one that has these faults after only 3 years?

Q7! It was performing brilliantly during first 3 years but when warranty runs out all faults started to appear... lucky I got the common parking brake fault fixed (twice) under warranty though.

[Wax1234]

crazy about cars said:

Missus sent me a picture and there are some amber warning lights : glow plug, EBC + ABS but this is normal if the car is jump started after a flat battery. The RAC man cleared the fault last time using his machine. The AA man that came this time didn't clear the warning though.

You won't pass an MOT with the EBC and ABS lights showing, new rules came in on the 20th March

[littleredrooster]

crazy about cars said:

Missus sent me a picture and there are some amber warning lights : glow plug, EBC + ABS but this is normal if the car is jump started after a flat battery. The RAC man cleared the fault last time using his machine. The AA man that came this time didn't clear the warning though.

I'm fairly sure that the ABS warning light misbehaving is a fail under the new regime.

[crazy about cars]

Ah right... I knew this wouldn't be so easy... so should I recover car to dealer then? Can I recover car to driver by driving if there's no MOT?

The car is left running as per advice of AA man but I will ask missus to switch it off and restart it again to see if lights still comes on... great start to bank holiday weekend

[Wax1234]

You can drive with no MOT as long as you are driving to a pre booked MOT or a place of repair

[itz_baseline]

Wax1234 said:

You can drive with no MOT as long as you are driving to a pre booked MOT or a place of repair

OP could book lots of MOTs close to where they need to drive to on a daily basis....that way they are covered if stopped

[crazy about cars]

Thanks for replies but apparently I will fail MOT if the warning lights is on? Seem to defeat the point booking an MOT if you know you will fail?

[Wax1234]

crazy about cars said:

Thanks for replies but apparently I will fail MOT if the warning lights is on? Seem to defeat the point booking an MOT if you know you will fail?

Book MOT with dealer, drive car to dealer, getting them to fix issues and then mot car?